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Ball-Gagged and Gutted · Visceral Disgorge

EXERCISE 6 OF 77
Groove C
91 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AO
CHORUS 5
12 groovesDBXAMAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ball-Gagged and Gutted on drums

183 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 2-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-100, kick and crashes through bars 101-104, hi-hat through bars 105-108 and kick and crashes through bars 109-110, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 18 and 22-26, and 8 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ball-Gagged and Gutted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 27, 47, 48, 49, 54 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ball-Gagged and Gutted?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ball-Gagged and Gutted hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ball-Gagged and Gutted?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 27, 47, 48, 49, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED